[Foundation-l] Re: French domain lost

Thu Oct 21 11:24:15 UTC 2004

Michael Snow a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>> I think that in this case, Foundation holding the US trademark and 
>> european one will be sufficient.
>> Jimbo just told me that the US one was approved and the other underway.
>>  
>>
> For clarification, I believe the current situation is that we have 
> submitted the application to register Wikipedia as a trademark in the 
> US. The application was filed last month, but I don't believe it is 
> approved yet, as it still needs to be reviewed by the Patent and 
> Trademark Office and published to see if anyone objects to registration. 
> Actual registration can take up to a year or longer. We certainly 
> consider Wikipedia a trademark, whether registered or not, but I 
> recommend that people be careful not to claim that it is registered at 
> this point.

Good point to mention. Since there is a tiny discrepancy between your 
message and Jimbo comment, it might be best that Jimbo clarifies. But in 
any cases, we need to be conservative on this point obviously.

One year :-(

> Once we have the initial registration in place, this should help us 
> expedite other registrations that may be necessary, such as the EU. 
> Based on international agreements, I believe that once the trademark is 
> recognized, additional registrations can be backdated to the earliest 
> registration date.
> 
> As far as I know, trademark registration is not necessary in order to 
> register domain names anywhere. However, it may be helpful in recovering 
> squatted domain names.
> 
> --Michael Snow

Yes. Well, we'll try the gentle way first